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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.

Dallas Willard

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.

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